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Give thanks with a grateful heart   Let's be grateful and give thanks to God - not just at Thanksgiving - but daily, even hourly for the good that we have and the good that He desires and has purposed to give us. Often we are consumed with what we don't have instead of looking to God and His eternal provision for us. Sometimes we get resentful because God has allowed something in our lives that hurts us or because we are not seeing the manifestation of the thing we have asked for. God said to me one time when I was complaining to Him about something, "You need to be grateful that this problem is not nearly as bad as the devil intended it to be." We can always give thanks if we remember that through prayer and the mercy of God we are saved from the worst that the devil can do to us and that as we persist in prayer and obedience to the Word all things in our lives will be perfected according to the will of God. Just because we don't see instant results we should never doubt that the power of God is being applied to every situation that concerns us as we pray according to His Word and obey Him in all that we know to do. Once we've prayed for something that we are promised in the Word - healing, deliverance, provision, whatever -we need to begin thanking God for the manifestation of that thing in our lives even before we see it. This is faith. As we thank God for that thing, it is brought out of the spirit world and manifested in this earthly realm. Thanksgiving will produce a harvest in our lives. The word tells us "Do not be weary in well doing for in due time you shall reap if you faint not." (Gal. 6:9) Many give up on their promise from God because they grow weary trying to endure until that "due time." Let's not faint and quit, but let's cultivate patience and keep pressing in by being diligent in the Word and in prayer and in the giving of thanks. We thank God not for the problem we have, but rather for His provision to take care of it and to perfect those things that concern us. Copyright 1999, by Singles Scene/Spirit & Life Reproduction without permission prohibited Return to HOME